Quotes About Consensus

Everything that is popular is wrong.

There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.

There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

History is fables agreed upon.

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

...We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.

It takes centuries for sense to become common

I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus."

Good decisions don't so much need consensus as they need commitment.

Nobody likes him now but the people

What to me is truly frightful is not the quality of what everyone agrees on, but the very fact of universal agreement.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest.

Instead of wasting time on proposals which are difficult to forge consensus on, such as public nomination and party nomination, it's better to focus the discussion on how to form the nominating committee and the nomination process.

Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it's like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that.

The best way to minimize disagreement is to make sure that all the stakeholders are in the room.